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The subject of euthanasia may sound like a grim topic for a drama series, but writer Samantha Strauss can thank her grandmother for inspiring The End -an offbeat and sometimes humorous tale set in a Queensland retirement village. The Foxtel series has attracted a top-notch cast including Dame Harriet Walter ( Succession, The Crown, Killing Eve), Frances O’Connor ( The Missing, A Place to Call Home, City Homicide). “She was horrified by the whole scenario. She arrived really depressed, dressed in browns and hunched over. She’d survived a couple of cancers and my dad, who is a doctor, g...

Storm Boy, Mander runs a show at a Gold Coast theme park. Having become fascinated with birds as a child – his father was a falconer in England – Mander lives on a property with about 60 macaws, eagles, falcons, buzzards, parrots, owls and other birds that "free fly" during the day and return to their cages at night. "Their intelligence is much higher than predatory birds and their memory retention really stands out": Mander on the set of Penguin Bloom. Credit:Roadshow He considers a 22-year-old wedge-tailed eagle named Soren to be his best mate. "But all my birds are like friends, like ...

Like most Gothics, the Australian Gothic has acquired its own distinct aesthetic—most frequently, an abject unpleasantness and atmosphere of sand-scoured horror. Personally, I’d like to blame both Evil Angels (aka Strange Objects (1990) for many of my own nightmares. It is also, like most Gothics, tangled up with the genre’s own past, and inextricably knotted into colonial and imperial histories as well as the multitude of other mirrored and recurring histories typical of a Gothic plot. And Australia has a bloody history, with terrible things done and still being done. Yet there are a...